London has been battered by 50mph winds that have felled trees and caused travel chaos. Powerful gusts swept across the capital as the Met Office issued a yellow "be aware" weather alert for most of the country.

Are you smorgas-bored with all things Norse? After years of affection for their schools, their food and their crime fiction our love has turned cold — even our torch for Birgitte has gone out. Sam Leith joins the anti-Scandis

Tolstoy begins Anna Karenina with the observation: “All happy families are alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.” Professor Colin Mayer of the Said Business School in Oxford reckons it is the same with companies: “Good boards are all alike, bad boards are each dysfunctional in their own way.”

The show finally went on at the St James Theatre yesterday for the press night of Trevor Nunn’s Scenes from a Marriage, co-starring Mark Bazeley and Olivia Williams. Bazeley’s illness last week led to the run being delayed.